THE
ANALYTICAL THEORY OF HEAT
JOSEPH FOURIER, TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES,
BY
ALEXANDER FREEMAN, M.A.,
FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
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PREFACE.
IN preparing this version in English of Fourier's celebrated treatise on Heat, the translator has followed faithfully the French original. He has, however, ap pended brief foot-notes, in which will be found references to other writings of Fourier and modern authors on the subject: these are distinguished by the initials A. F.
The notes marked R. L. E. are taken from pencil me moranda on the margin of a copy of the work that formerly belonged to the late Robert Leslie Ellis,
Fellow of Trinity College, and is now in the possession of St John's College. It was the translator's hope to have been able to prefix to this treatise a Memoir of Fourier's life with some account of his writings; unforeseen circumstances have however prevented its completion in time to appear with the present work.
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CONTENTS OF THE WORK1.
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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE 1
CHAPTER I.
Introduction.
STATEMENT OF THE OBJECT OF THE WORK.
ART.
I. Object of the …